<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
On 12-01-10 05:16 PM, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
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> You're being one-dimensional<br>
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I don't think I am.<br>
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> My<br>
> project wasn't meant to be a TV,<br>
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</div>Ahhh. So don't call it a TV then. Canonical are calling their project<br>
"Ubuntu TV". To me, at least, that means it's a TV.<br>
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> it was a media hub for the kitchen.<br>
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</div>A "media hub" != "TV", IMHO.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Get<br>
> home, tap a couple things, play media.<br>
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</div>But surely you don't do that (I mean walk up and touch the screen) on<br>
the 50" _TV_ you have mounted on the wall above your fireplace, right?<br>
I mean given that my point was entirely about the usability of a touch<br>
interface on a TV.<br>
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b</font></span></blockquote><div>You had responded to my comment that I was glad to see touchscreen support, because of my previous experience with an HTPC build I had done. So, that was the context of my reply. <br><br>
I don't think there are many touchscreen 50" HDTVs out there, so I hadn't even considered that scenario. That being said, I would love for my 60" TV to be touchscreen - I tend to have stuff running in the background no matter what I'm doing and it's a PITA to get home, sit on the couch, cycle through what I want, launch it, then get back up again. How awesome would it be to just walk by my TV, tap it a couple times, and have everything playing?<br>
<br>But, back to the context of my previous comment - I was happy for the touchscreen capability being there, not for my primary tv, but for my satellite viewers. I would love for the smaller HTPC boxes I have around the house (kitchen, garage, basement, office) to be fire-and-forget style, where I can just tap and go, as opposed to the immersion of the living room TV.<br>
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